doc. art. Irena Jukić Pranjić

She was born in 1973. In Bjelovar. She is professionally engaged in comics, animated film, illustration and pedagogical work. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. She has received numerous awards for her artistic work, especially in the field of animated film, where she has so far made the titles Ornament of the Soul (2011), Lust (2014), Gamer Girl (2016) and Real Boy (2021). She is engaged in the promotion of comics – she edited the anthology Women's Comics in the Balkans (2010), the comic magazines School of Walking, Walkers on Long Paths (ALU 2016-2023), the comic book Migrations – Homage to Dragutin Trumbetaš (Galženica Gallery 2022); she is the editor and director of all 50 episodes of the documentary television series Comics in Croatia (HRT3 2014/17), and the author of numerous essays on comics, the most important of which are "Heroes of Croatian Comics" for the catalogue of the exhibition "It Will Continue, Comics and Visual Art in Croatia" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2021; "Aggregate States of Fantasy – The Connection between Comics and Animated Film in Croatia" in the monograph Fifty Years of the World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb, 2022. She is the author of numerous comics that she has published in various magazines and in the form of comic strips Antipoison (1997-2003), the comic book Emission of Emotions (2015) and the comic book Diary of Dreaming and Philosophizing (2021). Since 2016, she has been teaching Comic 1 and Comic 2 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. http://irenajukicpranjic.blogspot.com/ https://irenajukicpranjic.wixsite.com/website https://www.instagram.com/pranjicirenajukic/

Comics, animation and illustration as media of popular culture that contain great potential for artistic expression; research and experimentation with new models of communication within these media.

They learn about comics through lectures on the morphology of comics and the history of world and Croatian comics, and through conversations with guests who are professional comic book authors. They also learn through practical work based on exercises designed to master different comic book narrative techniques. Students are also guided through the experience of publishing comics, so in eight years 13 comic books have been printed.

– "Empowerment", group exhibition, Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Kulati and Bangalore (India) and Colombo (Sri Lanka) – Animafest, visual appearance: illustration and credits – "Strip Mobil", solo exhibition, Galženica Gallery; Animafest 2024, Đakovština Museum, APURI Rijeka, HUIU Pula, Matija Gallery, Šibenik – "Migrations - Homage to Dragutin Trumbetaš", Galženica Gallery – "We care. Do you?", group exhibition, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburb (Germany), with artists including Guerrilla Girls, Pussy Riot, Chimananda Ngozi Adivhie – "Diary of Dreaming and Philosophizing", comic book – the edition was awarded by the Ministry of Culture as part of the competition for stimulation for the best achievements in the field of literary creativity in 2021 and 2022. – "About the Boy Who Interrupted Everyone", author's picture book 2020./21. – "To Be Continued - Comics and Visual Culture in Croatia", exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art – "From Imagination to Animation", MSU – "Visions of the City", exhibition, Modern Gallery